Guest guest Posted October 6, 2001 Report Share Posted October 6, 2001 Dear Dr.Ramanuja: Thanks very much for your excellent commentary on VyathipAta . It is most welcome. I have seen once the Jaathakam of AchArya RaamAnujA. If any one can help access it , we can do some more research on this subject . Thanks again, V.Sadagopan At 05:32 PM 10/5/01 +0530, you wrote: > > I was blessed to read the eyewitness account of NavaTridandaParimandanam >of Jagadguru SriRamanujacharya at sri Perumboodhur under the supervision of >Sri Sadagopan swamy's sister. The day was the dasami Aridrai with >Vyatipata in Mahalaya paksha. I read in Itihasopanishat that > > KanyaagatE savitari tishthanthi pitarO grihE > ... > dinE dinE gayAtulyam bharaNyAm gayapanchakE > Dasatulyam vyatipatE pakshamadhyE tu vimshati: > DvAdashyam shatamityAhu: amAvAsyam sahasrakam > Ashvayuk shuklapakshasya dvitIyAm ayutham phalam > ... > tasmAt sarvaprayatnEna kuryAt ShrAddham mahAlayam > > which means > > Come Kanyaamasam or Purattashi and the pitrudevas will start >camping in their corresponding houses in the bhoolokam. (Another sloka >says that they stay till the start of Vrishikam or Karthigai.) (Mahalaya >paksha normally falls within or close to Kanyamasam. Everyday is equal to >Gaya in greatness. Bharani in mahalaya is equal to five gayas. That is why >it is normally written in almanac as Mahabharani. On vyatIpata day it is >equal to 10 Gayas. It is termed as MahavyatIpata. Pakshamadhyam or Ashtami >is equal to 20 gayas in power. It is called MadhyAshtami. Dvadasi in >mahalayapaksha is equal to one hundred gayas and Mahalaya Amavasya is >equal to one thousand gayas. That is why by all efforts one should conduct >Mahalaya shrAddha. Then the dvitIya of Aswayuja Suklapaksha following >Mahalaya Amavasya is having the power of 10,000 Gayas!! > >If any Swami knows more about these aspects I request that more light may >be thrown on this topic. > > By the way sriRamanujacharya's avatarasamayam was mentioned by sri >Sadagopan as Chitthirai masam, etc when Aridra constellation was in >ascendancy. Here is a clarification needed. The rasi in which the Sun is, >is the solar month of birth. The rasi in which the moon is determines the >star of the jatakam. The rasi that is rising in the east or is ascending >is the Lagnarasi. Applying this here, since it is Chitthirai masam, the >sun was in Mesha rasi and so the birth month is mesha or chitthirai. Since >the moon was in Mithuna rasi near Aridra star, Sriramanujacharya's star >was Aridra. It is incorrect to say that Aridra was in ascendancy unless >moon was in mithuna rasi and simultaneously mithuna rasi was in the >ascendancy also. Since we have no info here about the lagna rasi, >we cannot say so. I am sorry to raise this point if it is trivial. I hope >it is a point worth noting. > >Vachikadosha: kshantavya: >Adiyen Ramanujadasan >Ramanuja > > > >----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - >To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list >Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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